Born in Tehran, Firouzeh Khosrovani settled in Italy to pursue her artistic studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. After graduating in 2002 she returned to Iran and acquired her Master’s degree in Journalism. Since then, she has contributed to, and collaborated with numerous Italian newspapers and magazines. She made her debut as a filmmaker in 2004 with Life Train, a documentary on the ‘play’ therapy provided for the traumatized children of Bam in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. In 2007, she directed Rough Cut, a film about mutilated plastic mannequins in the shop windows of Tehran, whichwon thirteen international documentary film festival awards, followed in 2008 by Cutting Off, an installation and video art piecefor the Triennale di Milano. Her 1001 Irans (2010), was a documentary about the image of Iran, outside of Iran. In 2011, she collaborated with three directors from three different continentson a Spanish productionabout the concept of beauty and women’s physical appearance, called Espelho Meu, which won the Best National Documentary award in Documenta Madrid. The next year, she directed Iran, Unveiled and Veiled Again, produced by Istituto Luce, Cinecittà, in Rome. In 2014, she participated in a collective project, Profession: Documentarist, a film in seven episodes, made by seven Iranian women directors. Her work, Fest of Duty, is about a religious ceremony in Iran designed to instil Islamic beliefs and values into girls,when they reach the age of nine.The documentary follows two adolescent girls as they transition into adulthood, eight years after their official Fest of Duty. She is at the final stage of editing of her new project Radiograph of a Family that took part in the Greenhouse workshops last year.